"The old hags, the dykes, the frigid, the unf-ed, the unf-ables, the neurotics, the psychos, for all those girls who don't get a look in the universal market of the consumable chick." A memorable feminist work of memoir, commentary, polemic, and theory. "I write as an ugly one for the ugly ones," Despentes spits in an absolute banger of an opening. King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes (2006) It's a slim blade of a book at 224 pages: mordantly funny, utterly unforgettable. His younger brother tells the story of a family in fiendish pain and their individual journeys into the future. Their older son has a grotesque and life-changing accident. Family Life by Akhil Sharma (2014)Ī family immigrates from India to the U.S. Stay for the towers falling, for Netherland's charismatic, Trinidadian take on Jay Gatsby, for the sweet and haunted narrator, Hans van den Broek, and for O'Neill's long and elegant opera gloves of sentences. Masterly - perhaps one of the greatest New York City novels. Incredible literature, and everyone should read it. It is moving, muscular, fiercely idiosyncratic, and scream-out-loud funny. The Shipping News took me to the harsh chill of Newfoundland, and the hunger for a new life, and I gladly went. This was the book I read at nights while I wrote a huge chunk of All This Could Be Different. Sarah Thankam Mathews' debut novel, All This Could Be Different, is the coming-of-age story of a young woman from India who after finishing college moves to Milwaukee just as the Great Recession hits.
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